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rad88
10y ago
I didn't say it's easy, or that there shouldn't be compensation! All those people add value and some of their work is very difficult. But difficulty of work is not the basis upon which they have large ownership stakes. Many j
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Yep, a great division of labor created that wealth for the company, and the developer is not entitled to 15% of it's revenue (or even profit) just for that work. This isn't a practical issue though. The everyday situation is not t
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According to this logic, our developer has actually earned his wages in perpetuity from this single year of work (or at least so long as that 15% value added lasts). But that's clearly not how it works either. The issue in this example
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I have rarely ever heard someone argue that. lettergram did not argue that, only that employee wages are exploitative. In a labor market with unemployment and no real safety net it's clear that workers cannot individually leverage a fa
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10y ago
You're making fun of the sensitivities and stress experienced by some people after they are raped. Nice one.
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It's clearly about his son, though I don't assume he says it straight to his face. I thought you were also thinking of your offspring. Sorry I've misunderstood.
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10y ago
Please don't. If you have difficulties with your children, using this term can only make them worse.
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Such a trip costs money. To secure the legal right to inhabit the island, to make the trip, and to bring enough supplies to survive. A person either needs to use his parent's cash or to work for a number of years and save before leavin
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> Having a job is the cost of living in society. In other words, we are born into debt and must work all our lives to pay off that debt. This is true in so many ways, and makes what we're talking about amount to at best a kind of bo
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10 hours a week would be fantastic. Or any non-zero amount of time. If everyone did this it would be a revolutionary force the likes of which have not been seen in decades.